Bridge of Reason

  William Wordsworth wrote: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Wordsworth is lamenting the fast withering connection between people and nature because of the all-embracing industrial society of his time, a great theme of his day . I find people are often aware they are somehow disconnected from something bigger than themselves. I sense their longing for they don’t know what, their frustration at an inexplicable sense of fragmentation . Believers can experience this frustration, when ‘the world is too much with us, late and soon, getting and spending.’ T hat sense we have laid waste our powers, given our hearts away while distracted by the demands of life . Like Esau, we can feel we have traded our new-birthright ‘for a mess of pottage.’ Genesis 25:29-33 ‘The world is too much with us, late and soon,’ and l ittle we see in sp...